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It’s a great time to own Apple products, by now you already know, but the product line is humming along with very little to complain about … well except for the new iTunes screw ups, and the frustrating iOS bugs, and all. But seriously folks, there’s a lot of great news for iPhones, and the Watch. Here — follow along with this week’s latest poop :

The gold standard for musicians, mimiCopy, an audio player for ear training, is now updated! Software developer and content creation firm ART Teknika, Inc. (headquarters in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo) is updating its iOS app, mimiCopy, to version 1.5 on the iTunes App Store. mimiCopy is geared at guitarists and other musicians and allows them to record and copy sections of audio by ear.

Intelligent Apps releases version 1.3 of LaunchCode Shortcut with Notification Center. Our world is an integration of thousands of languages and cultures. But there is a nonverbal language that every human being uses and understands; gestures! Humans use gestures as an integral part of their daily communication and now can communicate with an iPhone the same way.

Here’s another of those apps that iTunes users have been wailing for :: WALTR for Mac OS X and Windows. WALTR serves as an excellent tool to get media files (music & video) onto your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch device quickly, and to no longer worry about unsupported formats.

Whether you need to remove exact iTunes duplicates or multiples of the same song across albums, the newly released Mac OSX software, Tune Sweeper 4, contains a variety of criteria that can be applied to tailor the search and removal. You can either manually review the duplicates found and pick which tracks to keep, or let Tune Sweeper 4 pick for you based upon your preferences. With just a couple of clicks, all of your duplicates can be removed.

Like music? Do you work with music? You’ll enjoy this … Audiomux 1 was the first app capable of streaming audio to a Mac or Windows PC via the standard 30pin/lightning USB cable. Now with version 2, it’s easier than ever to integrate your iOS apps into your music production environment – just like you would use a plugin.

Most of the media viewers and organizers have gotten fat and sloppy. They’re as bad as Adobe, like a big fat person sitting on the sofa eating chocolates! But not Corduroy Code and their new Fileloupe 1.0 for Mac OS X. Fileloupe combines the features of a photo viewer, video player and document browser into a single, exceptionally fast application. Harnessing the power of Apple’s Quick Look technology, Fileloupe offers users one of the fastest ways to browse, view and share photos, videos, PDFs and documents.

Hermosa Beach, California – App designers Blacksand Apps Studio Inc. released the new GoMark App for iPhone. GoMark instantly and intuitively labels photos with the time they were taken, the place taken, date, and even altitude and temperature. Continue reading »

Ottawa, Canada – Itemtopia Inc. has launched the new cross-platform app Itemtopia, an app to keep your things organized and simplify your life. The application puts all of the information about things you own, manage or care about in one place, and creates a knowledge bank at your fingertips. Most importantly, all of the data is private, secure, and available anywhere. Continue reading »

Enhanced Ears is a new app that enables an Apple iPhone to function like a hearing aid. More than 36 million Americans incur hearing loss, which can significantly impact quality of life. However, many resist seeking help or wearing hearing aids because of significant cost, potential discomfort and embarrassment.

There are tons of apps for life before we have kids: We date on Match, have regrettable hookups on Tinder and find the best brunch places to cure our hangovers on Yelp. Then we have kids. And then what? If you aren’t looking to offload your kids with Sittercity, what do you do? What if you just want to find something awesome to do with your whole family? That’s where Yuggler comes in! The news is, Yuggler, theaward winning App for defeating family boredom in seconds will be free now and forever.

TextExpander 5, is a major upgrade to the popular Mac typing shortcut tool. TextExpander 5 helps you type faster by making suggestions of frequently typed phrases to abbreviate and save time. It also helps to remind you of forgotten snippets as you type.

New York, New York – Lickability has announced the release and immediate availability of Pinpoint 2.0, the best iOS app to mark up your screenshots, now available on the App Store. Pinpoint offers a fun and easy way to see your entire screenshot collection, mark them up, and share the annotated images with friends. Continue reading »